Hit-and-run victim's family seeks mercy for driver

10:09 PM,
Jan. 31, 2014

Michael Anderson (right) was convicted of failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in the death of Earmon 'Bud' Hubbard III (left). Instead of the maximum sentence of up to eight years in prison, Anderson received three years of probation and a two-year license suspension.

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Outside a Marion County courtroom, a group of people stood in a circle, holding each others' hands in prayer.

Among them were Michael Anderson, his mother, his attorney, and Byron Hubbard, the brother of the man Anderson killed in a hit-and-run crash. Hubbard said he gathered the group Thursday to pray for Anderson, who was about to be sentenced.

Anderson could have served up to eight years in prison in the hit-and-run death last year of 52-year-old Earmon "Bud" Hubbard III. That is the maximum sentence on a conviction for failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death. ...